Yeah they had a bunch down. I had trouble getting WU's up and down on my GPU for a while, but it finally downloaded a new one and one of the 2 needing uploaded made it. Still waiting since 13+ hours ago for a Linux SMP WU, though, on one box.

Well, at least one of the servers was backed up for a while. My X2 box hard locked and required a reboot so I took the opportunity to change to notfred's VMware Folding appliance (can that even be called diskless anymore?). Fired it back up and it grabbed the backup files on my TFTP server. This afternoon it could not send the finished 2605 and could not get an assignment. Just checked it and everything seemed to be fine now. It even grabbed the A2 core and is now working on a 2662. We will see if the efficiency gains can be achieved on an "old" S939 X2.

I like notfred's new stuff. It picked up my old WU and worked through it and the new web frontend adds a lot of new features. This is probably the quickest way to get a VM-based SMP client up. I guess I can test that out a bit and make a recommendation. Thanks very much notfred!

The Model M is not for the faint of heart. You either like them or hate them.

They have more power outages than any academic setting that I've ever heard of. When I was at the dorms at UF, we never lost power, even during the bout of hurricanes a few years ago that knocked out all of the rest of the city of Gainesville and 50+% of the whole state.Their facilities people should be ashamed of themselves.

[20:37:46] - Attempt #6 to get work failed, and no other work to do.Waiting before retry.[20:40:27] + Attempting to get work packet[20:40:27] - Connecting to assignment server[20:40:48] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server[20:40:48] + Could not connect to Assignment Server[20:41:10] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server[20:41:10] + Could not connect to Assignment Server 2[20:41:10] + Couldn't get work instructions.

I think most or all of the servers have been up for a while now, but I had to restart a couple of my clients to make sure they'd try without waiting umpteen hours before their next attempt to download a new WU. Now that they say they're starting to push the servers out to other campuses, they should probably allow the clients to try more quickly so as to minimize loss of folding time. At least once every 30 minutes should be allowed.

Usacomp2k3 wrote:They have more power outages than any academic setting that I've ever heard of. When I was at the dorms at UF, we never lost power, even during the bout of hurricanes a few years ago that knocked out all of the rest of the city of Gainesville and 50+% of the whole state.Their facilities people should be ashamed of themselves.

It's because they're in California. Power problems now are nothing like what they were ~2000, but the system still runs under heavy load a lot and a lot of the academic institutions are wired in so deep that the electric companies need to shut them down in order to work on power lines on a disturbingly common basis.